Editing University of Manchester (section)

==Academic profile==
The University of Manchester is the [[List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrollment|{{HESA student population rank|INSTID=10007798}} largest]] university in the UK (following The Open University and University College London).<ref name="HESA citation"/> The University of Manchester attracts international students from 160 countries around the world.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Why international students should study at The University of Manchester |url=https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/international/why-manchester/ |access-date=23 October 2021 |website=The University of Manchester |language=en |archive-date=27 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327093036/https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/international/why-manchester/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Well-known members of the university's current academic staff include computer scientist [[Steve Furber]], economist [[Richard R. Nelson (economist)|Richard Nelson]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mbs.ac.uk/newsevents/16-07-2007.aspx?rssNE |title=Leading economist joins Manchester Business School |publisher=Manchester Business School |access-date=11 December 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219112714/http://www.mbs.ac.uk/newsevents/16-07-2007.aspx?rssNE |archive-date=19 December 2007}}</ref> novelist [[Jeanette Winterson]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/archive/list/item/?id=8273&year=2012&month=05 |title=Winterson becomes Manchester Professor |access-date=31 May 2015 |archive-date=23 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223014638/http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/archive/list/item/?id=8273&year=2012&month=05 |url-status=live }}</ref> and 
Professor [[Brian Cox (physicist)|Brian Cox]].

===Research===
The University of Manchester is a major centre for research and a member of the [[Russell Group]] of leading British research universities.<ref>[http://www.suttontrust.com/research/innovative-university-admissions-worldwide/innovativeadmissions09.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517094113/http://www.suttontrust.com/research/innovative-university-admissions-worldwide/innovativeadmissions09.pdf|date=17 May 2013}}</ref> In the 2021 [[Research Excellence Framework]], the university was ranked fifth in the UK in terms of research power and eighth for grade point average quality of staff submitted among multi-faculty institutions (tenth when including specialist institutions).<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 May 2022 |title=REF 2021: Quality ratings hit new high in expanded assessment |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-2021-research-excellence-framework-results-announced |access-date=21 May 2022 |website=[[Times Higher Education]] |language=en |archive-date=14 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220614151200/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-2021-research-excellence-framework-results-announced |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The University of Manchester : Results : REF 2021 |url=https://results2021.ref.ac.uk/profiles/institutions/10007798 |access-date=21 May 2022 |website=[[Research Excellence Framework]] |archive-date=12 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512164132/https://results2021.ref.ac.uk/profiles/institutions/10007798 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the 2014 [[Research Excellence Framework]], the university was ranked fifth in the UK in terms of research power and fifteenth for grade point average quality of staff submitted among multi-faculty institutions (seventeenth when including specialist institutions).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2014/dec/18/university-research-excellence-framework-2014-full-rankings |title=University Research Excellence Framework 2014 – the full rankings |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=17 December 2014 |access-date=21 August 2018 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140152/https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2014/dec/18/university-research-excellence-framework-2014-full-rankings |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="timeshighereducation1">{{cite news |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/sites/default/files/Attachments/2014/12/17/g/o/l/sub-14-01.pdf |title=Research Excellence Framework 2014: Overall Ranking of Institutions |work=[[Times Higher Education]] |access-date=21 August 2018 |archive-date=27 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027013058/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/sites/default/files/Attachments/2014/12/17/g/o/l/sub-14-01.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Manchester has the sixth largest research income of any English university (after [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], [[University College London]] (UCL), Cambridge, Imperial and King's College London),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://re.ukri.org/news-events-publications/publications/recurrent-grants-for-academic-year-2018-19/ |title=Recurrent grants for academic year 2018–19 |publisher=[[Research England]] |access-date=21 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822114011/https://re.ukri.org/news-events-publications/publications/recurrent-grants-for-academic-year-2018-19/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> and has been informally referred to as part of a "golden diamond" of research-intensive UK institutions (adding Manchester to the Oxford–Cambridge–London "[[Golden triangle (universities)|Golden Triangle]]").<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=190219 |title=Golden diamond outshines rest |work=Times Higher Education |date=23 July 2004 |access-date=20 March 2010 |archive-date=4 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904100953/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=190219 |url-status=live }}</ref> Manchester has a strong record in terms of securing funding from the three main UK research councils, [[EPSRC]], [[Medical Research Council (UK)|Medical Research Council]] (MRC) and [[Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council]] (BBSRC), being ranked fifth,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ListOrganisations.aspx?Mode=Inst&Order=INA |title=List Organisations |publisher=Gow.epsrc.ac.uk |date=19 November 2010 |access-date=26 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325060954/http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ListOrganisations.aspx?Mode=Inst&Order=INA |archive-date=25 March 2010}}</ref> seventh<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Applicanthandbook/Successrates/Recipientsoffunding/index.htm |title=Medical Research Council – Recipients of funding |publisher=Mrc.ac.uk |access-date=26 December 2010 |archive-date=20 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220145321/http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Applicanthandbook/Successrates/Recipientsoffunding/index.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and first<ref>{{cite web |author=External Relations |url=http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/organisation/spending/universities.aspx |title=Top funded universities |publisher=BBSRC |date=17 August 2009 |access-date=26 December 2010 |archive-date=15 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101115124911/http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/organisation/spending/universities.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> respectively. In addition, the university is one of the richest in the UK in terms of income and interest from endowments: an estimate in 2008 placed it third, surpassed only by Oxford and Cambridge.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/table/2008/aug/05/universityfunding.highereducation |title=Who is best endowed? Universities with the most income and interest from endowments |work=The Guardian |date=5 August 2008 |access-date=26 December 2010 |location=London |archive-date=3 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603061945/https://www.theguardian.com/education/table/2008/aug/05/universityfunding.highereducation |url-status=live }}</ref>

The University of Manchester has attracted the most research income from UK industry of any institution in the country. The figures, from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), show that Manchester attracted £24,831,000 of research income in 2016–2017 from UK industry, commerce and public corporations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/university-manchester-top-uk-business-research-income/ |title=University of Manchester is top for UK business research income |website=University of Manchester is top for UK business research income |access-date=31 December 2018 |archive-date=1 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101100420/https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/university-manchester-top-uk-business-research-income/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Historically, Manchester has been linked with high scientific achievement: the university and its constituent former institutions combined had [[#Nobel Prize winners|25 Nobel laureates]] among their students and staff, the fourth largest number of any single university in the United Kingdom (after Oxford, Cambridge and UCL) and the ninth largest of any university in Europe. Furthermore, according to an academic poll two of the top ten discoveries by university academics and researchers were made at the university (namely the first working computer and the contraceptive pill).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5857 |title=Two University of Manchester discoveries in the top ten of all time (The University of Manchester) |publisher=University of Manchester |access-date=26 December 2010 |archive-date=18 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118173015/http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5857 |url-status=live }}</ref> The university currently employs four Nobel Prize winners amongst its staff, more than any other in the UK.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/manchester-britains-greatest-university-2101828.html |title=Manchester: Britain's greatest university? – Education News, Education |work=The Independent |date=9 October 2010 |access-date=26 December 2010 |location=London |archive-date=6 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606184455/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/manchester-britains-greatest-university-2101828.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Langworthy Professorship, an endowed chair at the university's Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been historically given to a long line of academic luminaries, including Ernest Rutherford (1907–19), Lawrence Bragg (1919–37), Patrick Blackett (1937–53) and more recently Konstantin Novoselov, all of whom have won the Nobel Prize. In 2013 Manchester was given the Regius Professorship in Physics, the only one of its kind in the UK; the current holder is [[Andre Geim]].

===Libraries===
[[File:Rylands Library Deansgate.jpg|thumb|right|The Grade-I listed [[John Rylands Library]] on Deansgate]]
{{Main|University of Manchester Library}}
The [[University of Manchester Library]] is the largest non-[[legal deposit]] library in the UK and the third-largest academic library after those of [[Bodleian Library|Oxford]] and [[Cambridge University Library|Cambridge]].<ref name="sconul">[[SCONUL]] ''Annual Library Statistics''; 2005–2006</ref> It has the largest collection of electronic resources of any library in the UK.<ref name="sconul" />

The [[John Rylands Library]], founded in memory of [[John Rylands]] by his wife [[Enriqueta Augustina Rylands]] as an independent institution, is situated in a [[Victorian Gothic]] building on [[Deansgate]], in the [[Manchester city centre|city centre]]. It houses an important collection of historic books and other printed materials, manuscripts, including archives and papyri. The papyri are in ancient languages and include the oldest extant [[New Testament]] document, [[Rylands Library Papyrus P52]], commonly known as the ''St John Fragment''. In April 2007 the Deansgate site reopened to readers and the public after major improvements and renovations, including the construction of the pitched roof originally intended and a new wing.

===Collections===
====Manchester Museum====
[[File:Manchester Museum Entrance.jpg|thumb|upright|The entrance to the Manchester Museum]]
{{Main|Manchester Museum}}
The Manchester Museum holds nearly 4.25 million<ref name=MuseumCollection>{{cite web |url=http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/collection/ |title=Manchester Museum's ''Our collection'' page |access-date=26 February 2008 |archive-date=9 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809084953/http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/collection/ |url-status=live }}</ref> items sourced from many parts of the world. The collections include butterflies and carvings from India, birds and bark-cloth from the Pacific, live frogs and ancient pottery from America, fossils and native art from Australia, mammals and ancient Egyptian craftsmanship from Africa, plants, coins and minerals from Europe, art from past civilisations of the [[Mediterranean]], and beetles, armour and [[archery]] from Asia. In November 2004, the museum acquired a cast of a fossilised ''[[Tyrannosaurus]] rex'' called "Stan".

The museum's first collections were assembled in 1821 by the Manchester Society of [[Natural History]], and subsequently expanded by the addition of the collections of Manchester Geological Society. Due to the society's financial difficulties and on the advice of evolutionary biologist [[Thomas Huxley]], [[Owens College]] accepted responsibility for the collections in 1867. The college commissioned [[Alfred Waterhouse]], architect of London's [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]], to design a museum on a site in Oxford Road to house the collections for the benefit of students and the public. The Manchester Museum was opened to the public in 1888.<ref>[http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/history/ The History of The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627082857/http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/history/ |date=27 June 2009 }}. Retrieved 25 November 2007.</ref>

====Whitworth Art Gallery====
{{Main|Whitworth Art Gallery}}
[[File:Whitworth Gallery.JPG|thumb|The Whitworth Art Gallery]]
The Whitworth Art Gallery houses collections of internationally known British watercolours, textiles and wallpapers, modern and historic prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture. Its collection contains 31,000 items. A programme of temporary exhibitions runs throughout the year and the Mezzanine Court displays sculpture.

The gallery was founded by Robert Darbishire with a donation from Sir [[Joseph Whitworth]] in 1889, as ''The Whitworth Institute and Park''. In 1959, the gallery became part of the [[Victoria University of Manchester]].<ref name=history>{{cite web |url=http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/history/ |title=A Short History of The Whitworth Art Gallery |access-date=10 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104125323/http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/history/ |archive-date=4 November 2012 }}</ref> In October 1995, the Mezzanine Court in the centre of the building was opened. It was designed to display sculptures and won a [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] regional award.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/ |title=The Whitworth |website=Whitworth Art Gallery |access-date=7 March 2020 |archive-date=30 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051230161609/http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Rankings and reputation===
{{Infobox UK university rankings
| ARWU_W             = 52
| QS_W               = 34=
| THE_W              = 53=
| LINE_1             = 0
| Complete           = 22
| The_Guardian       = 31
| Times/Sunday_Times = 27=
| LINE_2             = 0
| TEF                = Silver
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[[File:Manchester 10 Years.png|thumb|upright=1.2|University of Manchester's [[Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom|national league table]] performance over the past ten years]]
According to the 2020 Graduate Market Review published by High Fliers, Manchester is the most targeted university by the top 100 graduate employers in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Graduate Market 2020 |url=https://www.highfliers.co.uk/download/2020/graduate_market/GM20Report.pdf |access-date=14 July 2021 |archive-date=5 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905011222/https://www.highfliers.co.uk/download/2020/graduate_market/GM20Report.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

As of 2021, the University of Manchester has been recognised as the 27th best university in the world by QS. The university was ranked 6th nationally. The University of Manchester was ranked 36th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020. It had the 5th highest ranking of UK universities on this list. In 2019, the university placed 4th nationally in Reuters' list of the World's Most Innovative Universities.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |date=n.d. |title=Rankings and Reputation of the University of Manchester |url=https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/experience/reputation/rankings/ |access-date=14 July 2021 |website=Manchester University |archive-date=14 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714214137/https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/experience/reputation/rankings/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' in 2006, "Manchester has a formidable reputation spanning most disciplines, but most notably in the life sciences, engineering, humanities, economics, sociology and the social sciences".<ref name="timesonline1">{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/news/article626449.ece |title=Manchester unites to target world league |work=Sunday Times |access-date=13 May 2007 |location=London |date=10 September 2006 |first=David |last=Byers |archive-date=23 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523095930/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/news/article626449.ece |url-status=dead }}</ref> Manchester was given a prestigious award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts by the ''Times Higher Education Awards 2010''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=494&pubCode=1&navcode=157 |title=The Awards Winners 2010 – Times Higher Education |work=Times Higher Education |access-date=16 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201130927/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=494&pubCode=1&navcode=157 |archive-date=1 December 2012}}</ref>

In 2017, the [[Alliance Manchester Business School]] was ranked 3rd in UK, 10th in Europe and 30th in the world by the ''[[Financial Times]]'' in its global MBA ranking.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/manchester-business-school/global-mba-rankings-2011#global-mba-rankings-2011 |title=Business school rankings from the Financial Times 2017 – Alliance Manchester Business School |work=Financial Times |access-date=16 July 2017 |archive-date=13 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613050856/http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/manchester-business-school/global-mba-rankings-2011#global-mba-rankings-2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

However, while world rankings (such as QS, ARWU, THE) typically place the university within the top 10 in the UK, the university ranks slightly less favourably in national studies. 'The Complete University Guide 2022' ranked Manchester 13th out of universities in the UK, and ‘The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021' placed it at 18th.<ref name="auto"/> A 2016 poll voted Manchester as the third "most underrated university in the UK".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/most-underrated-uk-universities-chosen-students |title=The most underrated UK universities, chosen by students |date=11 January 2016 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |access-date=28 April 2018 |archive-date=3 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603062049/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/most-underrated-uk-universities-chosen-students |url-status=live }}</ref>
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In 2022, the University of Manchester was ranked at number 38 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Luke Georgiou, said: “The ranking tables, despite their limitations, give a consistent picture of The University of Manchester’s excellence in national and global terms.”<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/manchester-among-top-international-universities-in-new-academic-rankings/ |website=MANCHESTER 1824 |access-date=15 August 2022 |title=Manchester among top international universities in new academic rankings |archive-date=15 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815090732/https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/manchester-among-top-international-universities-in-new-academic-rankings/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Admissions===
{| class="floatright"
| 
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%; text-align:center; margin-bottom: 5px"
|+UCAS Admission Statistics
!
!2024
!2023
!2022
!2021
!2020
|-
| '''Applications'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name=UCASEoC>{{cite web |title=UCAS Undergraduate Sector-Level End of Cycle Data Resources 2024 |url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024 |at=Show me... Domicile by Provider |website=ucas.com |date=December 2024 |publisher=UCAS |access-date=7 February 2025}}</ref>
| 92,500
| 93,450
| 92,310
| 88,330
| 79,925
|-
| '''Accepted'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name=UCASEoC/>
| 9,985
| 9,630
| 9,600
| 11,070
| 10,925
|-
| '''Applications/Accepted Ratio'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}
| 9.3
| 9.7
| 9.6
| 8.0
| 7.3
|-
| '''Offer Rate (%)'''{{efn-lg|name=ukjune}}<ref name="UCAS Offer Rate">{{cite web|title=2024 entry UCAS Undergraduate reports by sex, area background, and ethnic group|date=7 February 2025|url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024/2024-entry-ucas-undergraduate-reports-sex-area-background-and-ethnic-group|publisher=[[UCAS]]|access-date=7 February 2025}}</ref>
| 57.7
| 53.3
| 51.5
| 60.2
| 59.7
|-
| '''[[UCAS Tariff|Average Entry Tariff]]'''<ref name="CUG Entry">{{Cite web |url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards |title=University League Tables entry standards 2024 |work=The Complete University Guide |access-date=10 June 2020 |archive-date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125195135/https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards |url-status=live }}</ref>
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| {{n/a}}
| 167
| 165
|}
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|{{notelist-lg|refs=
{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme|Main scheme applications, International and UK}}
{{efn-lg|name=ukjune|UK domiciled applicants}}
}}
|}
|}
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible mw-collapsible"; style="font-size:85%; text-align:right;"
|+ class="nowrap" |HESA Student Body Composition (2023/24)
|-
!Domicile<ref name="Table 1">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1|title=HE student enrolments by HE provider, permanent address, level of study, mode of study, entrant marker, sex and academic year|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref> and Ethnicity<ref name="HESA ethnicity">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/whos-in-he/characteristics|title=Who's studying in HE?: Personal characteristics|date=3 April 2025|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
|[[White people in the United Kingdom|British White]]{{efn|Not be confused solely with [[White British]]}}
|align=right| {{bartable|40|%|2||background:red}}
|-
|[[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom#Collective terms for minority ethnic groups|British Ethnic Minorities]]{{efn|Includes those who indicate that they identify as [[British Asian|Asian]], [[Black British people|Black]], [[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed Heritage]], [[British Arabs|Arab]] or any other ethnicity except White.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|20|%|2||background:green}}
|-
|[[European Union|International EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2||background:blue}}
|-
|[[International students in the United Kingdom|International Non-EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|37|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Undergraduate [[Widening participation|Widening Participation]] Indicators<ref name="Table 1"/><ref name="Times25">{{cite web |date=24 September 2024 |title=Good University Guide: Social Inclusion Ranking |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings/league-table |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[Feminism in the United Kingdom#Education|Female]]
|align=right| {{bartable|55|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
|[[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Independent School]]
|align=right| {{bartable|16|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
|Low Participation Areas{{efn|Calculated from the Polar4 measure, using Quintile1, in England and Wales. Calculated from the [[Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation]] (SIMD) measure, using SIMD20, in Scotland.}}
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More students apply to Manchester than to any other university in the country, with 79,925 [[UCAS]] main scheme applications for undergraduate courses in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 January 2021 |title=2020 entry provider-level end of cycle data resources |url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2020/2020-entry-provider-level-end-cycle-data-resources |access-date=10 September 2021 |website=UCAS |language=en |archive-date=29 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829065601/https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2020/2020-entry-provider-level-end-cycle-data-resources |url-status=live }}</ref> Manchester had the 16th highest average entry qualification for undergraduates of any UK university in 2019, with new students averaging 165 [[UCAS Tariff|UCAS points]], equivalent to 3/8th of a grade below A*A*A* in [[GCE Advanced Level (United Kingdom)|A-level]] grades.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 January 2021 |title=2020 entry UCAS Undergraduate reports by sex, area background, and ethnic group |url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2020/2020-entry-ucas-undergraduate-reports-sex-area-background-and-ethnic-group |access-date=10 September 2021 |website=UCAS |language=en |archive-date=29 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829100322/https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2020/2020-entry-ucas-undergraduate-reports-sex-area-background-and-ethnic-group |url-status=live }}</ref> The university gave offers of admission to 51.5% of its undergraduate applicants in 2022, the 16th lowest offer rate across the country.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cambridge to scrap 'unjust' state school targets |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/11/cambridge-to-scrap-state-school-targets/ |publisher=The Telegraph |access-date=11 March 2024 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240331190103/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/11/cambridge-to-scrap-state-school-targets/ |archive-date=31 March 2024}}</ref>

15.7% of Manchester's undergraduates are [[Independent school (United Kingdom)|privately educated]], the 23rd highest proportion amongst mainstream British universities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Widening participation: UK Performance Indicators 2019/20 {{!}} HESA |url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/performance-indicators/widening-participation |access-date=10 September 2021 |website=www.hesa.ac.uk |archive-date=6 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206041422/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/performance-indicators/widening-participation |url-status=live }}</ref> 49.9% of [[International students in the United Kingdom|international students]] enrolled at the institution are from China, the fifth highest proportion out of all mainstream universities in the UK.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jack |first1=Patrick |title=OfS writes to 23 institutions over 'high levels' of Chinese students |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ofs-writes-23-institutions-over-high-levels-chinese-students |work=Times Higher Education |date=18 May 2023 |access-date=21 May 2023 |archive-date=21 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521020108/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ofs-writes-23-institutions-over-high-levels-chinese-students |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Manchester University Press===
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[[Manchester University Press]] is the university's academic publishing house. It publishes academic [[monograph]]s, textbooks and journals, most of which are works from authors based elsewhere in the international academic community, and is the third-largest university press in England after [[Oxford University Press]] and [[Cambridge University Press]].